Synonyms for fossil fuel
fos·sil fu·el

Princeton's WordNet

1. fossil fuelnoun

   fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content

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1. Andrew Forrest:

   Fossil fuel companies trying to tell the world that natural gas, blue hydrogen or gray hydrogen are a solution to climate change are lying, blue hydrogen, gray hydrogen, any type of hydrogen that is not green is dirty and uses fossil fuels to make it. It is like clean coal or cancer-free tobacco.

2. Iberdrola Chief Executive Ignacio Galan:

   If you don't have these plants you need fossil fuel plants, to reach the zero-emissions target you need systems that emit zero.

3. Antonio Guterres:

   Nature is angry. And we fool ourselves if we think we can fool nature, because nature always strikes back, and around the world nature is striking back with fury, there is a cost to everything. But the biggest cost is doing nothing. The biggest cost is subsidising a dying fossil fuel industry, building more and more coal plants, and denying what is plain as day: that we are in a deep climate hole, and to get out we must first stop digging.

4. Christoph Bals:

   Seven months after the successful climate summit in Paris the government is capitulating to the interests of the fossil fuel industry and missing the chance to give the economy a modernization impulse by presenting clear plans.

5. Salt Lake City:

   While there is much we can do, and are doing, at the municipal level, we need federal actions like The Clean Power Plan to help move us away from fossil fuel consumption related to energy generation.